Word: minuteman
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James W. Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, was uninvited from a speaking engagement Saturday at the Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee’s annual Public Interest and Law Conference, sparking debate over the limits of free speech...
Slated to speak as part of a panel on immigration, Gilchrist spent the past five months communicating with the conference organizers and raising funds from Minuteman supporters to finance his trip to Cambridge...
...movement to ban Gilchrist from the conference was largely initiated by Kyle A. de Beausset ’11, who in early October began using different university mailing lists to build support for uninviting Gilchrist due to his involvement in the Minuteman Project, which organizes civilians to patrol the border for illegal immigrants and to report crossings to the Border Patrol...
...Unfortunately, Mr. Gilchrist’s participation in the conference on the behalf of the Minuteman Project was not compatible with providing an environment for civil, educational, and productive discourse on immigration, and we cannot host him at this time,” it said...
...cradled the ball behind the net before circling around the crease, faking high, and sneaking it by UMass goalie Doc Schneider. Gibbons’ goal would be Harvard’s only score of the half, as Schneider denied the offense time after time. On one play, after the Minuteman defense failed to clear the ball, freshman attacker Kevin Vaughn found junior attacker Jesse Fehr streaking towards the net. From point-blank range, Fehr fired a shot at the lower right corner of the goal, but Schneider made a diving save to knock it away. “[Schneider] played...